Segregation is when they seperated the black and the whites.
The whites were favored more then the blacks and given more rights.
White kids couldnt play with black kids.
Blacks couldnt work where whites work.
It was difficult for the blacks to do much of anything.
WHY DO WE CARE??
We care because
It effects the families of both races.
Kids should have the freedom to play with whoever they want to, not based on skin color.
It limits the blacks to things that are basic and needed.
It would give the rights to all
Did you know?
Isaiah Montgomery was born into slavery at Davis Bend, the plantation of Joseph Davis, the brother of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Southern Confederacy. His father, Benjamin, had managed the plantation for Davis until the end of the Civil War and was able to purchase it after the war. He established a prosperous colony of fellow freedmen for several years, but agricultural prices fell and severe winter flooding ruined their levees. When his loan fell overdue, the property was sold back to the Davis family.
Determined to educate himself, he traveled hundreds of miles under great hardship until he arrived -- broke, tired, and dirty -- at Hampton Institute.
declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities
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SUMMARY
WHY DO WE CARE??
We care because
- It effects the families of both races.
- Kids should have the freedom to play with whoever they want to, not based on skin color.
- It limits the blacks to things that are basic and needed.
- It would give the rights to all
Did you know?- Isaiah Montgomery was born into slavery at Davis Bend, the plantation of Joseph Davis, the brother of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Southern Confederacy. His father, Benjamin, had managed the plantation for Davis until the end of the Civil War and was able to purchase it after the war. He established a prosperous colony of fellow freedmen for several years, but agricultural prices fell and severe winter flooding ruined their levees. When his loan fell overdue, the property was sold back to the Davis family.
- Determined to educate himself, he traveled hundreds of miles under great hardship until he arrived -- broke, tired, and dirty -- at Hampton Institute.
- declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities
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